Staff Reporter :
Former Chittagong Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter lodged a complaint with a court against six officials of Police Bureau of Investigations (PBI) including PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder for torturing and attempting to kill him in police custody.
Babul, who is now in jail in a case over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, lodged the complaint against the six PBI officers with the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge Jebinnessa on Thursday, said Monir Hossain, the court’s bench assistant.
Advocate Habibur Rahman Labu lodged the complaint against Banaj Kumar Majumder, PBI chief, Md Nazmul Hasan, SP Chittagong district PBI, Naima Sultana, SP Chittagong city PBI, Santosh Kumar Chakma, former police inspector of Chittagong city PBI and currently OC of Khulshi police station of CMP, AKM Mohiuddin Salim, former Inspector of Chittagong District PBI and currently assistant commissioner of DB of CMP and Kazi Enayet Kabir, inspector of Chittagong District PBI.
The plaintiff’s lawyer Gholam Mawla said: “The PBI took custody of Babul Akhtar and tortured him to get his confession in Mitu’s murder case. A case has been filed under Section 15(1) and Section 5(2) of the Torture and Custodial Deaths (Prevention) Act, 2013. Babul Akhtar lodged the application himself. Following the hearing, the court kept the case for order.”
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul’s wife Mitu at the port city’s GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish police station against three unidentified men.
The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu’s father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP’s mishandling of the case.
On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.
Babul Akhter also filed a ‘naraji petition’ against the PBI report on October 14, 2021.
On November 3 last year, a Chittagong Court rejected the final report of PBI in the murder case and ordered it to conduct further investigation.
PBI in an investigation found Babul’s involvement in his wife’s murder.
